The Penn's Grove record., 1887-08-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK

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Cattle in the vicinity Of Belvidere.
New Jersey, having symptoms OF
pleuro- pneumonia, and several having
died. the State Veterinary Surgeon
made an off rial visit on the lItb, and,
after examining some OF the cattle,
said they were afl cted with Texas
fever.
The mail coach that arrived at
Rawlins, Wyoming, on the evening of
the 18th, was escorted out fifteen
miles from Meeker 10y a heavy guard.
Later advices from that point state the
town is being guarded night and day
by a force of armed men. A confer
ence was held with the Indians on the
morning of the 10th. but nothing def
mite determined. The business men
aud large property holders declare
there is no Indian a
The steamer Atlas, which left
New York a few days ago for the
West Indies, returned to that port on
the 10Th, having been in collision
with the schooner Lizzie Wilson, Cap
tain Chadwick, from Baltimore to
New York on the 18th. off Barnegat.
The schooner sank Immediately, car
rying down the wife and daughter of
the captain and two seamen. The
Atlas rescued Captain Chadwick and
three sailors and took them to New
York.
AS the new North German Lloyd
steamer Trave, from Bremen, was
making her pier, in HOboken, on the
morning of the 10Th. her bow swung
around and crashed into the lower
portion of the pier, tearing away the
entire roof. A portion of the shed
tell upon the bow of the ship, strik-
ing several of the steerage passengers
and two or three of the crew.
Two east-bound freight trains COL
lided on the 10Th on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, between WynnewoOd and
Elm Station, Pa, causing considerable
Iamage to a property and freight,
and injuries, not dangerous, to the en-
gineer and fireman of n of the trains.
During the sham battle at the re-
union of the Eighty-seventh Illinois
Veterans at Enfield, Illinois, on the
10Th, two lannon's were prematurely
discharged. G. Sullenger had both arms
blown off, and will probably die. The
others injuaed were James Crockett,
Robert johnson, IRWIN Reeder, William
Daniels and Emanuel Berry. They are
badly lacerated and burned, but will,
it is thought. recover.
"A storm struck Republican City,
Nebraska, on the 18th, which demol-
ished and unroofed houses. A large
brick schoolhouse, nearly completed,
was wrecked, and the carpenters buried
in the runs. j. j. flaming and a man
named Allen were killed. and six others
seriously injured, two fatally. II. Ii.
Wetherell's house was blown away, and
his wife and two children were injured.
Hailstones an inch in diameter fell
during the storm.
Mrs. Marguerite Devoe, IS years
old and blind, hanged herself toa peach
tree in the yard of her residence, in
Newark, New Jersey, on the 10Th. 1t
II is said that sickness unsettled her
mind.
William Byers, aged 10 years, shot
and killed his father, during a quarrel
about some farm work, at Indiana,
Penna., on the morning of the 29th.
Theodore Mauke, SO years of age, shot
and severely wounded his wife, and then
shot himself through the breast, in Bos-
ton. on the morning of the goth. 1t is
not believed he will GOV They had
been on bad terms for some time. On
the evening of the 10Th, AlonzO Kelly,
Eon OF Postmaster John h. Kelly, of
Blackjack, Penna., twelve miles from
Indiana. fatally shot Charles Rodgers.
a burglar, who was caught in the act
of robbing the p~ost-ofice. Young
Kelly sleeps above the post-ofhce.
Mrs. Ella Dinsmore, who has been
on trial at Clarion on the charge of be-
ing an accessory to the murder OF
James Davis, for which David l.. King
IS now under the sentence of death,
was on the Goth convicted of murder in
the first degree. John 7. Ross, who
is to be hanged in Baltimore on the
26th for the murder of Emily Brown,
an aged white woman, in December
last. has made a confession. He asserts
that Anderson Perry mstigated the
murder and struck the woman with a
brick, after which Albeit Hawkins
stabbed her to death, and that he and
Hawkins carried her body to the medi-
cal university. where it was sold for
fifteen dollars.
Two families, named Harrison
and Graham, travelling through the
Indian Territory to Texas, ~quarrelled
on the 10Th because young Graham
asked to marry Harrison's daughter,
and her father refused to allow the
match. The young mar threatened
to shoot Harrison, and the latter's
son, believing his fathers life in dan
ger, shot Graham, infiicting a mortal
wound. A young brother of the
wounded man, seeing his brother fall,
shot young Harrison through the
arm, when the elder Harrison. who
had armed himself, reappeared. and
was also shot by Graham. Members
of the families, who were absent from
the camp, hearing the firing came up
and prevented further bloodshed.
During a co,ored church supper at
Savannah, on the evening of the 10th,
William Taylor murdered Anthony
Charlton by cutting his throat with a
razor. At Lebanon, Penna., on the
evening Of the Doth, Hiram Boeshore,
aged IL years, deliberately and without
apparent cause shot and fatally wounded
James Wilson, aged 8. The latter died
on the morning of the 21st. The boys
were playing together, and Boeshore
says she didn't know his revolver was
loaded"
Mrs. Malvina r. w. Payne, aged
60 years, and her daughter, Anna NJ.
Payne, 35 years old, were found dead
in their apartments, in a tenement
house, at No. 81 Charles street, New
York. ON the morning of the 10th.
They had committed suicide several
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